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My personal theory is that all of this neurodivergence is an evolutionary tactic for group survival. If everyone in your nomadic tribe has a short attention span, then they’ll get lost or distracted on their way to the next watering hole and probably die. But if NO one in the tribe has a short attention span, then they’ll make it to the next watering hole but miss all the berry bushes and edible animals that they were too focused to notice, and they’ll probably starve.

@BronxWench hang on a second. They no longer call it Asperger’s? 😳 That’s what my husband has, and he was diagnosed less than ten years ago. 
Also, @GeorgeGlass, I love that theory. The idea of being effed in the head “for the good of the tribe” makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. (as opposed to hot and hairy on the outside, of course. Summer in the south and almost-south SUCKS.)

Apparently, it’s all ASD now: Autism Spectrum Disorder. Youngerspawn’s official diagnosis was PDD:NOS, or Pervasive Developmental Delay: Not Otherwise Specified. It’s now listed as Autistic Disorder on his case files, otherwise known as “Can you make a fucking diagnosis and stick with it. please?”

I prefer the diagnosis a friend of mine got from her pediatrician when her child was diagnosed, right about the same time as Youngerspawn… “This child ain’t right, but she’ll make a great engineer.”